Boston Legal Star Justin Mentell Dead at 27 in Car Crash
Former Boston Legal star Justin Mentell may have fallen asleep at the wheel of his Jeep, just seconds before his vehicle plunged down an embankment and crashed into two trees near Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, killing the young actor, police told RadarOnline.com Tuesday.
“His mother believes that he may have fallen asleep at the wheel just prior to the accident,” Iowa County Sheriff’s Dept. Sgt. Daniel Carey told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
“We don’t believe that alcohol was a factor in the incident. There was no evidence of that here,” Carey said. “It is possible that Mr. Mentell fell asleep at the wheel, as his mother told us that he liked to take long drives on his own and the area he crashed was pretty secluded. There was some snow lying on the surrounding areas, [but] the road conditions were clear and dry, so, they would not have been a contributing factor either.
“The coroner will be doing the usual blood tests to see if there were any drugs in his system,” Carey said, “but at this point we are just treating it as a tragic accident.”
The official police report revealed that Mentell was not wearing his seatbelt when the car plunged off the embankment, and struck the trees on Moscow Road outside the town of Moscow in Iowa County, Wisconsin.
Although the airbag was deployed, Mentell was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene
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